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[Thom May]

* Simon Stewart (sms at lateral.net) wrote :
> On Tuesday, Oct 15, 2002, at 17:51 Europe/London, Thom May wrote:
> 
> >fink install mutt ;-)
> 
> Possibly a small amount of overkill there. But might end up doing it 
> anyway. :)

It works pretty well, actually. and uses apt/dpkg backend, so it's all good
;-)
> 
> >looks beautiful with lovely truetype enabled terminals doing full alpha
> >transparency.
> >I really rather like OS X...
> 
> It's quite nice. The terminal scrolls at a painful speed, and I'm still 
> looking for a native text editor which is any good (other than 
> emacs/vi)
Hrm. 10.2.1 seems to have very whizzy terminals, at least on my TiBook.

> Ideally, something which does syntax highlighting of perl, 
> ruby, PHP, XML, C, C++ and java. At least. If it can cope with the mix 
> of HTML and PHP without choking, and also doesn't mind JSP or velocity 
> macros, I'd appreciate that.
>
I'm using jedit, actually. It looks like a native OS X app, and is pretty
swift once loaded. jedit.sf.net
The native vim build seems quite slow, but i need to play with that.

Project builder looks quite cute, but i've not played with it.
 
 -Thom

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